Looks like late 40's to me. But, still amazing.

what do you base that on?

shoulda read the article under it. oh well.

I like

Hey, it's Piccadilly. That photo is taken from more or less under the statue of Eros. There's a nice bagel bakery just off to the left of that picture and up a side street. mmm, bagels. Anyway, I usually walk up there of a lunchtime from Whitehall.

Next on fark: a picture of my house.

cool, pre-war

New wallpaper w00t!

The article under it specifically says 1948 or 49. Where did the genius submitter extrapolate 1930s-era from that?

Epsilon:

Well London is a pretty backwards place... ;P

/I keed!

I saw a better one earlier this afternoon

Love the 2006 version further down, where Japanese consumerism overtakes the building on the left. That's PROGRESS, folks!

Was the coolest high-resolution, 1930s-era color photograph of London I saw all day when I saw it on Digg earlier today.

Submitter sucks, but I used to go to uni near Piccadilly, so that's a great pic.

Let me get this out of the way:
PHOTOSHOP'D!!!!!
/no, not really, but people that do this in the 'Coolest pic you'll see all day' threads pisses me off

That guy crossing the road looks a bit like Drew...

StrikitRich

Was the coolest high-resolution, 1930s-era color photograph of London I saw all day when I saw it on Digg earlier today.

douchebag.

Showed my girlfriend (who has recently moved to London to live with me), She said "It hasn't changed much..." and I laughed ;)

queenin - That's the best you could come up with?

Point out bars smitty.

I mean pubs, my bad.

If you're going to rip stuff from the front page of Digg submitter, at least read the comments first, yes?

http://digg.com/design/An_old_hi_resolution_colour_photograph_of_London_circa_ 1930_s

As you'll see some enterprising Digger has managed to accurately date the photo as 1949:

by hiro 14 hours ago
+ 70 diggs
The photo was taken in 1949. Among several things that date it (vehicles already being correctly mentioned) the clincher is the play at the Apollo theatre which only ran for 11 months. Still a great photo, but not 1930s I'm afraid

DFlor

Love the 2006 version further down, where Japanese consumerism overtakes the building on the left. That's PROGRESS, folks!

To be fair, the building on the right has been reclaimed from 'british consumerism'.

Love the 2006 version further down, where Japanese consumerism overtakes the building on the left. That's PROGRESS, folks!

Yeah, but if you look at the building in the right of the picture, a lot of the signs blocking the facade of the building have been taken down. So, THAT's progress.

i wish i was in london right now. that would be cool.

The modern day photo is depressing compared to what it once was. The stores, the cars, the entire street facade has lost the flair it once had.

Nice Resin33, thanks!

"i wish i was in london right now. that would be cool. "

If you could get there. There's complete chaos all over the UK and Europe in the airports right now. People sitting outside in plastic bags 'cause there's no space for them inside.

StrikitRich: That's the best you could come up with?


I'd guess that's the best he could do and maintain accuracy.

vwfst55: Point out bars smitty.

I mean pubs, my bad.

Did I miss something here? What do pubs have to do with anything?

i thought people lived in black & white back in those days.

/didn't really

daveL,

Take a King's ransom and tanks of your own clean air with you.

Wow, I knew trench coats where popular back then. But wow.

Can anyone link me to an archive of similar photographs? By similar, I mean old color photos, never mind the context.

/Has seen some WWII in color
//Looks freakishly vivid and alive

only the air quality has improved.

skinink

* golf claps *

Good one, Skinink.

I don't know, I've seen some pretty good 1930s London pics today...

MedicDance: /Has seen some WWII in color

what about ww1(pops)

10.0.0.1 - From yours and queenin's pithy comments I could assume that either of you might have been the submitter, but then you each would have to have had at least one approved headline first to have been the submitter.

This reminds me. What games will our children's children play? We're gonna need another war.

There's something about seeing the past in color that makes it seem so much more real.

Some of my favorites that have shown up in Fark links previously:

Gsm136 [TotalFark]

what about ww1(pops)

Thanks for the link. These were posted on Fark a while back, right? Arn't these the ones that are digitially colored?

I love nostaligic pictures.

Haha, headline change.

Makes some of the posts up there look a bit strange.

Yeah, but if you look at the building in the right of the picture, a lot of the signs blocking the facade of the building have been taken down. So, THAT's progress.

It's the 'Cravens' advert, and the visibility of the building in the modern photos, that's the most noticeable difference, to me.

MedicDance: Can anyone link me to an archive of similar photographs? By similar, I mean old color photos, never mind the context.


America during the Great Depression and WWII in color (pops)